Textiles and Weavings

The ancient Inca discovered the unique attributes of alpaca and today Felipe Berckholtz shares them with this throw. Featuring long fringed ends, the throw is knitted of baby alpaca, which is the wool from the season's first shear renowned for its incredibly soft, lightweight warmth.

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Elegant in dark brown, this soft throw is ideal to cuddle under during cold weather seasons. From Nestor Yana, the throw is woven with an alpaca wool blend, noted for its light weight and warm comfort. The borders are crocheted by hand by a group of women who Yana supports to increase their income.

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Precisely knitted in earthen colors, pyramids create vertical motifs punctuated with red. Alfredo Falcon creates a bold and versatile poncho. Black borders and a turtleneck collar distinguish this alpaca wool blend wrap. Learn More

Beautiful hand woven Bolivian awayo is a cloth that features the traditional symbols of the indigenous people who create them. Previously owned and lovingly used, the purpose of this awayo is not diminished by some wear and stains. Bolivia.

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This mastana is hand woven of colorful yarns and features hand applied binding on all for edges with a diamond pattern design. From the high Andes hamlet of Ocongate near the site of the Qoyllur Rit'i festival. Peru. Learn More

Our traditional woven red and black poncho is as stylish as it is practical at keeping the chill off. Woven in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Peru.

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A special alpaca and wool blend woven Andean textile comes to us from a private collector. Gently used and in excellent condition, this piece is called a wedding weaving because part of its repeating design in either band includes two birds facing each other in a show of affection. Beautifully finished on all four edges with a typical desing and style known in some regions as nawi awapa, or eye border thought to have special protective qualities. Learn More

An exquisitely and heavily hand-beaded Q'ero ch'ullo hat. First, the cap is hand knit of colorful wool and then hand beaded with thousands of white glass beads. It is then embellished with multiple brightly colored pom poms. This type of hat is worn by the Q'ero for special feast days and ceremonies.  Painstakingly hand made in Peru.

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Our rich and colorfully hand woven Q'ero mestana features the traditional rayed diamond or Inti motif of the rising and setting sun. Woven by the Q'ero peoples of the high Peruvian Andes.

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